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Page last updated at 13:31 GMT, Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Diary reveals Great Escape plot

Coded plans for The Great Escape are found in the wartime diary of a World War II airman from Greater Manchester.

WWII tunnel digger 'Mole' dies

Escape hero 'disliked film'

Escape veterans meet again

Putting great women in the picture

How to include your photos of inspirational women in a new portrait of Manchester suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.

How America's war changed the North West

Discover why the American Civil War led to the building of parks, roads and canals all over Greater Manchester.

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Stretford's pioneering aviator

Adela: from left to right

Ewan MacColl: theatre legend

Uttley's radical youth revealed

Rutherford: splitting the atom

City's aviation history at an end

Rochdale's Reichstag?

MAG: Manchester's best kept secret

Darwin whale's tooth in wardrobe

Dale's musical heritage

Postcards were Edwardian 'texts'

Digging up Manchester's 'Hell'

Macabre fame of Hannah Beswick

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